2017 Prairie Spirit Trail Challenge

Riders, it’s time again for the Prairie Spirit Trail Challenge, where communities along the trail compete in the National Bike Challenge. Iola is the reigning champion, but it’s a new year, and Humboldt, Colony, Garnett, Richmond, Princeton, or Ottawa could well take the crown!

New this year, you’ll need to use Strava to actually log your miles. Luckily, Strava is pretty awesome all on its own.

Here’s what I recommend:

If you have a Strava account, make sure you’re logged in. If you do not have a Strava account, go to strava.com and set one up (it’s free); you can sign up using your Facebook account, your Google account, or an email and password.

Go to nationalbikechallenge.org and click the orange “Join The Challenge” button. This’ll send you back over to Strava, so that you can grant permission for the NBC to access your Strava data.

Ride your bike and log your miles!

You can log your miles manually, use a GPS fitness tracker (e.g. Garmin, Yahoo, Polar, Lezyne, etc.), use a Strava smartphone app, or use a third-party service such as Fitness Syncer to pull in your data from other sites such as Endomondo or MapMyRide. Whatever way you get your miles into Strava, they’ll be automatically forwarded to the National Bike Challenge, where you can compete as an individual, as part of a city, as part of a state, or as part of a team, school, or workplace.

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The Prairie Spirit Trail is a Kansas State Park built on a former railroad right-of-way. It connects Iola in the south to Ottawa in the north, over a distance of about 52 miles. This web site is a resource for bike riders of Kansas's Prairie Spirit Trail. The site provide cyclists with up-to-date information needed for traveling this popular eastern Kansas Rail Trail.